In the UK? Strange browser behaviour? You might be being IWF’d.

Re:In the UK? Strange browser behaviour? You might be being ... by nkassis on Sunday April 17, 2011 @02:26PM (#2456629)

You can use putty and firefox to do sock proxy on windows. When configuring a connection in Putty add a port for dynamic forwarding (under connection -> ssh -> tunnels, put something like 4999 in the source port, select the Dynamic radio button and click add next to the source port)

Then in firefox you can setup a socket proxy (in options, under advanced settings -> connection settings select manual proxy then add 127.0.0.1 and port 4999.) This should be enough to get around it. I use this to secure my connection while on other peoples laptop (work etc..)

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Re:In the UK? Strange browser behaviour? You might be being ... by _b8r0 on Sunday April 17, 2011 @03:20PM (#2456753)

I use this in conjunction with the FoxyProxy[1] extension sometimes to get around censorship in some countries. Good call on writing it up here, I missed it.

[1] - http://getfoxyproxy.org/

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